China on Saturday successfully carried out the world's first soft landing of a space probe on the moon in nearly four decades, state media said, the next stage in an ambitious space program that aims to eventually put a Chinese astronaut on the moon.

NASA intends to grow basil, turnips and a white flower called Arabidopsis on the Moon. They believe that if plants can thrive on the moon, so can humans. Logged in Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.

The Earth's moon may be a present from Venus, which once had a moon and then lost it, a new theory suggests. Under the theory, Earth's gravity captured Venus' old moon, giving our planet its big natural satellite.

Recent analysis of lunar rocks at the Carnegie Institution for Science found that the moon actually formed around 4.45 billion years ago. That's 100 million years later than we thought. The moon is thought to have formed when a planet around the size of -

When you look up to the skies Tuesday and Wednesday nights, if the skies are clear, you will be looking at a rare, lovely sight -- a blue moon. The nights of Aug. 20- 21 will be a blue moon. Mostly known as the second (or third) full moon in a calendar ..

For three centuries or more people have been writing about the Moon. In the 19th century, Jules Verne wrote a novel on the subject, From Earth to Moon. That author wisely observed: anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Approaching asteroid 1998 QE2 has a moon. Researchers found it in a sequence of radar images obtained by the 70-meter Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., on the evening of May 29th (May 30th Universal Time) when the asteroid was about 6 milli

Scientists recently analyzed the water in Moon rocks returned by Apollo astronauts and discovered that the Moon seized a giant amount of water from Earth when our satellite formed. Logged in Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.

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